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Louisville Removes Sidewalk in the Name of Pedestrian Safety
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Louisville’s Ninth Street Divide just got a little bit wider, and Downtown Louisville a little less walkable. During a street repaving project, two small pieces of sidewalk in the median of Ninth Street (aka Roy Wilkins Boulevard) at Magazine Street were removed, and engineers from Metro Louisville Public Works say the move is ab effort to
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Public Works to Begin Removing Abandoned Bikes From Louisville Public Right of Way
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If you’ve got a bike locked up in Louisville, you may want to check that it’s in good repair. Metro Louisville Public Works is set to begin removing abandoned bikes locked up in the public right of way. “An increase in bicycle ridership in Louisville has brought with it an increase in abandoned bicycles, bikes
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How Fairdale’s Roundabout Could Give Focus to a Neighborhood Trying to Connect With Its Forest
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A decade in the making, the center of Fairdale is finally getting a focal point. By August 2017, the the dog-leg intersection of West Manslick Road, Mount Holly Road, Mitchell Hill Road, and Fairdale Road will be remade into a large roundabout that’s hoped will increase safety, create a sense of place, and improve traffic flow. Today,
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There’s Still Time to Support Bike Lanes and Sidewalks on Chenoweth Lane Instead of a Street Widening
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Over 100 people joined the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) at a recent public meeting to hear about a study that will investigate making changes to Chenoweth Lane through St. Matthews. As we previously noted, the two-lane Chenoweth runs just over a mile between Shelbyville Road and Brownsboro Road. Residents learned at the meeting that KYTC
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Why It’s Important to Get Out of Your Car to Report the News
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Despite a mishap here or there, the new bike lane along Sixth Street through Downtown Louisville and neighborhoods south has been open a couple weeks now. But as the lane begins to meld with the city’s built landscape, let’s consider how the city has approached the lane and its strange green markings. For instance, WDRB’s report
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Canine Urbanism: As the Artist Row Project Rehabs Housing Stock, It Hopes Dogs Can Create a Sense of Place
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Louisville’s Portland neighborhood is going to the dogs—and that’s a good thing, according to Gill Holland, one part of the Artist Row Project (ARP), a nonprofit helping to restore the neighborhood’s housing stock. When the ARP renovates a former crack den into the nicest shotgun house on the block, it gives its tenants a discount
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Saturday: Louisville to Dedicate Crowd-Funded Bus Stop in SoBro
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Bus stops in Louisville are usually nothing to brag about. Most often marked by little more than a pole in the ground, the city’s transit riders put up with a lot just to get around without a car. But the so-called Beta Bus Stop Project by a collection of local organizations and leaders is helping to make taking
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Jeffersontown Planning a Biking and Walking Path Along Watterson Trail
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Jeffersontown is getting a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians. The project, announced this week, is funded in part by a $1 million federal Congestion Mitigation & Air Quality (CMAQ) grant with remaining funds coming from the City of Jeffersontown. CMAQ grants are meant to help spur projects that can improve air quality, such as reducing
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Louisville’s Newest Bike Lane, the First to Get Green Paint, Now Open on Sixth Street
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On Thursday, October 29, Louisville newest bike lane was striped on Sixth Street. As we reported in August, the new 1.4 mile stretch of bike lane begins at River Road and moves south through Downtown to SoBro and Limerick and eventually to Zane Street at the doorstep of Old Louisville. “The new lane is a
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The Delayed Move Louisville Plan, Transit, and the City’s First TIGER Grant
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If you feel sometimes like Louisville is behind the times when it comes to public transit, that’s because it is. Cities large and small have been boosting their mass transit systems over the past decade—with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal support—while here in Louisville, we’re building one of the largest highways to cut
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Q&A: Walking College Fellow Pamela Sutton
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Pamela Sutton is a Early Childhood instructional assistant in the Head Start program at Louisville’s McFerran Elementary School. Every day she either walks or pedals her bike from her home in Shively to school in the Algonquin neighborhood, a habit she picked up six years ago. Sutton leads her school’s walking club, the One Mile Walkers
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Theater Square Leveled for Kindred Healthcare’s New Office Building
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Well, that was fast. In less than two weeks, the entire Theater Square complex on Fourth Street has been reduced to a pile of rubble. The complex of retail, office, and public space is being cleared to make way for Kindred Healthcare’s suburbanized headquarters expansion. The $36 million expansion project, designed by Louisville’s K. Norman Berry
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